Most valuable player

Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, England's Wayne Rooney and Venezuelan striker Josef Martinez were among five finalists named Wednesday for Major League Soccer's 2018 Most Valuable Player Award. Hours before the North American league began its playoff championship run, the league announced finalists for its season awards, topped by the MVP race, which also includes Mexico's Carlos Vela and Paraguayan midfielder Miguel Almiron. Zlatan scored 22 goals and added 10 assists -- only the fourth 20-and-10 season in MLS history -- but the Los Angeles Galaxy just missed out on a playoff berth. Rooney revived DC United after his mid-season arrival, lifting the club from last place into a fourth-place finish in the Eastern Conference and a playoff spot. The former England and Manchester United star netted 12 goals and assisted on seven others in 18 matches. Vela, a World Cup starter fior Mexico, scored 14 goals and added 13 assists to spark Los Angeles FC to the best season by any first-year … [Read more...] about Zlatan, Rooney among MLS Most Valuable Player finalists

The 2018 Football World Cup will start tomorrow and it will be a good opportunity for players to shine and for clubs and managers to buy future stars. Usually, after the World Cup, many players get their ratings up and they can be worth a lot more money than before the tournament. It will be interesting to see how the value of national teams will change after the Russia World Cup, so right now we will look at how national teams are valued according to Transfermakrt.com. The calculations are made using the value of the latest transfer of every player. The Romanian team, which didn’t make it to this year’s World Cup tournament, has a total value of EUR 49.5 million. The most valuable player is Razvan Marin, central midfield at Standard Liege, worth EUR 7 million. Romania is ranked 30th in the FIFA rankings, with 782 points. France The French national team has the highest value, according to Transfermarkt, at EUR 1.08 billion. The value of the players does not mean that … [Read more...] about BR Analysis. The most valuable teams at World Cup 2018

Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is among Europe’s 100 most valuable players, according to latest figures. The Nigerian is calculated to be worth €62.7m (£55m), making him the 79th most expensive footballer playing in the continent’s top five divisions: the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1. However, Ndidi’s price tag has dropped nearly €15m since January, when he was valued at €77.4m (£68m) and ranked 51st. The 21-year-old’s worth has been worked out by Swiss analytics company CIES Football Observatory , whose algorithm factors in position, age, nationality, club, contract length and, of course, ability. Ndidi’s depreciation could be due to a number of reasons. He has six months fewer on his contract, which runs to 2022, and he missed a chunk of games in the second half of the season due to suspension and injury, all while City’s form deteriorated. Nevertheless, Ndidi, who cost City … [Read more...] about Wilfred Ndidi still among Europe’s 100 most valuable players

Harry Kane has been rated as the most valuable player in world football. Kane has had a €201.2m (£176.25m) price tag put on his head, in a study of the top 100 players from Europe's five biggest leagues. And that has put the England captain and Tottenham talisman, 24, ahead of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, the Paris Saint-Germain duo who are currently the two most expensive players in the world. Brazilian superstar Neymar has been valued at €195.7m (£171.74m) in the latest CIES Football Observatory study and French forward Mbappe €186.5m (£163.41m). Neymar joined PSG for £198m last summer from Barcelona while Mbappe's move from Monaco to PSG is set to be made permanent this summer for around £166m. Kane's latest prolific season – he has scored 53 goals for club and country so far – has also seen him leapfrog Barcelona's Lionel Messi who has dropped from second to fourth-placed in the rankings. Liverpool's Mohammed Salah, Spurs's … [Read more...] about Most valuable player in world football revealed

Modric: Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are great players Choose Real Madrid's XI for Munich He continues to score in more games than any other player, to break the record of goals in the Champions League, to reach more semifinals... and as his legend grows, Cristiano Ronaldo can again put the other members of the world's top 10 most valuable players in the shade, because he is the only one left in the Champions League. No one can compare to the Portuguese. Not Neymar or Messi. Now valued at 120 million euros, according to the website Transfermarkt, Ronaldo will be going all out to get his team to yet another final. 10 most valuable players Leo Messi 180 million euros Neymar 180 million euros Harry Kane 120 million euros Cristiano Ronaldo 120 million euros Mbappe 120 million euros Kevin De Bruyne 110 million euros Paulo Dybala 100 million euros Antoine Griezmann 100 million euros Eden Hazard 100 million euros Philippe Coutinho 100 million euros The Tottenham player, Harry Kane, … [Read more...] about Only Cristiano Ronaldo of the most valuable top 10 players is still alive in the Champions League